{"id":19376,"date":"2024-04-04T06:51:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T06:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-lacmaarchitectural-controversies-brief-research\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T06:51:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T06:51:47","slug":"los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-lacmaarchitectural-controversies-brief-research","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-lacmaarchitectural-controversies-brief-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Los angeles county museum of art (lacma)Architectural Controversies – Brief & research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mapping Architectural Controversies <\/p>\n

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Overview<\/b> <\/div>\n
Many projects engender controversy: sports arenas, responses to environmental disaster, memorials,
\nadaptive reuse, transportation, and housing. But, once established, buildings are often viewed as simply
\ninevitable and stable objects. Following how buildings are debated and made (and sometimes unmade)
\ndismantles the designer-as-sole-creator myth and focuses instead on the heterogenous nature of
\nenvironmental design. It extends our thinking of buildings beyond their formal or technical properties to
\ntheir complex processes. <\/div>\n
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Mapping architectural controversies is a technique for investigating and representing this dynamic and
\ncontingent processes. It is an approach inspired by scholars in science and technology studies and cultural
\ngeography, like Albena Yaneva, whose essay about the 2012 London Olympic stadium controversy you
\nwill read to initiate this project. Mapping architectural controversies looks at much more than formal
\narchitectural analysis does. As Yaneva writes: \u201cWe follow and enlist the whole range of actors concerned
\nby the [building\u02bcs] design whether they are architects, clients, communities, costs, design precedents or
\nexisting buildings, area regeneration prospects or legacy scenarios, diagrams or sketches, beams or
\nstructural models or indeed anything else\u201d (Yaneva, 90). <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
A key concept that this project asks you to explore is the idea that
\nagency\u2014the power to decide or
\ncontrol\u2014resides not only in individuals and institutions (architects, interior designers, developers, builders,
\npublics, design agencies, corporate sponsors) but also in material objects (friable brick mortar, expensive
\nsteel) and ideas (historic preservation, ecology, architectural theory, professional culture, popular beliefs).
\n\u201cEverything can be an actor as long as it makes a difference\u201d (Yaneva, 91). Considering both
\nhuman and
\nnon-human actors accounts more fully for the forces that shape a project\u02bcs trajectory.<\/div>\n
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Phase I \u2014 Project Selection & Initial Research  <\/div>\n
Directions <\/b><\/div>\n
1. Project topic (Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA))<\/div>\n
2. Read the chapter \u201cMapping Controversies\u201d by Albena Yaneva (attached to the assignment, 83-94). <\/div>\n
3. Begin research, gathering and documenting sources in an annotated bibliography as you go. <\/div>\n
4. Review the sources you have amassed for your project topic. Further organize and edit them. <\/div>\n
Begin to draft answers to the \u201cWHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, HOW questions.\u201d <\/div>\n
a. WHO are the actors (consider human and non-human actors)? <\/div>\n
b. WHAT kinds of things mark the evolution of this project? <\/div>\n
c. WHEN do different decisions, actions, discourses take place? <\/div>\n
d. WHERE did this happen, was the impact felt? <\/div>\n
e. WHY do certain ideas emerge, decisions get made? <\/div>\n
f. HOW do events unfold, does discourse occur? <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Deliverables <\/b><\/div>\n
Submit the following deliverables to the Project 2-Phase I Assignment in Canvas as a single PDF. <\/div>\n
-At the top of the first page include your name, class, project title, and date. <\/div>\n
-File Name: Lastname_Firstname_Project2_PhaseI.pdf <\/div>\n
-Note that AI may not be used to develop any written or visual component of the project. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
1. Responses to all the \u201cWHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, HOW questions. Note, these questions
\nshould guide your research but not structure your written narrative. (250-500 words) <\/div>\n
2. Provide a list of all potential actors (human & non-human) that you have identified so far as
\nimportant to your architectural controversy. This should be a separate list from the #1, but may
\nrepeat some information. <\/div>\n
3. Draft a thesis statement (1-3 full sentences) which identifies the who, what, when, where, and\/or
\nwhy of your essay. What is the specific controversy at hand? Why are you studying it? What may
\nbe learned from this case study? This is only a first draft which will be improved in the coming
\nweeks. <\/div>\n
4. In-progress annotated bibliography. <\/div>\n
An annotated bibliography is a list of sources (books, articles, news media, social media,
\nother websites, etc.) with a short sentence about each source that explains the following: <\/div>\n
i. Main focus or purpose of the source <\/div>\n
ii. Usefulness or relevance to your research topic <\/div>\n
iii. Background and credibility of the author(s). Who the author is in relationship to
\nthe controversy? <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Project Topic:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)<\/div>\n
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****I have attached the Albena Yaneva essay reading file in case of need.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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